Abi Collins’s Reviews > A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman [Paperback] [2010] (Author) A.E. Housman, Archie Burnett, Nick Laird, John Sparrow > Status Update

“I received from America a request that I would define poetry. I replied that I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat, but that I thought we both recognized the object by the symptoms which it provokes in us.”